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<h1>Select</h1>
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<h2 id="1">Drives</h2>
To work with DatTools, you need a source folder where fields are read from, written to or put in.
 The first time you start DatTools, you should select the drives DatTools scans for valid source
 folders. To activate these drives, choose <i>Select</i> in the main menu, then <i>Drives</i>:
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The drive selection dialog is opened:
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Activate the drive where your V700 distribution is stored. In general, this is just one drive.
 Activating specific drives speeds up scanning for valid source folders markably. Please do not
 activate CD-ROM or DVD drives - it takes a lot of time to scan them and produces a lot of very
 annoying messages if no media is present.
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<h2 id="2">Source Folder</h2>
If you choose <i>Source Folder</i> from the menu, DatTools scans all activated drives for "ST7"
 folders. Old distributions (ST4, ST5, ST6) are ignored because data fields of versions prior
 to version 7.0.0. are incompatible with the new field header definition. Found source folders
 are shown in the selection dialog:
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Select a source folder of your choice - either double-click on the name or select the listbox
 item and push <i>Select</i>. This selected folder is the new working directory. Fields are
 loaded from here, altered fields are written back to and new fields are put into the DATA or
 SYST subfolders residing in this folder.
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<h2 id="3">Fields</h2>
Choose the menu item <i>Field</i> to display a list with all fields found in the source folder:
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Double-click on any name or select one, then push <i>Select</i> to make the selected field the
 working field. This selection is required if you want to view and edit a field's content, move
 or copy entries or open the spinbutton, bitmap or notebook field editor.
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